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Neil Jennings

Senior Consultant

Email: 

neil.jennings@ignition.law
Neil is a data protection, technology and commercial lawyer with a broad practice, including in-house roles across tech companies, startups, and financial services.
 
He advises on a broad range of UK and EU data protection, as well as commercial agreements and technology-related regulatory matters. His work includes SaaS and technology agreements, website and subscription terms, privacy policies, international data transfers, complex data flows and other regulatory issues affecting technology-enabled businesses.
 
Neil has led a range of transactional and advisory matters, including buy-side and sell-side transactions, complex subject access requests, international data breach responses and regulatory market-entry projects. Having founded and operated his own technology start-up, he also understands first-hand the commercial and operational pressures faced by founders and growing businesses.
 
He works closely with founders, boards, executives, product teams and technical specialists, providing practical, risk-based advice that reflects legal requirements alongside commercial and technical realities.

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Relevant Experience

  • Advising on complex data controller and processor analyses, including multi-party operating models.
  • Drafting and advising on data processing agreements, data sharing agreements and data protection impact assessments.
  • Advising on international data transfers, complex data flows, and sub-processor mapping.
  • Managing complex and high-profile subject access requests and international data breach assessments and responses.
  • Drafting SaaS agreements, services agreements and other commercial contracts.
  • Drafting website terms and conditions, subscription terms, privacy policies, affiliate programme terms and customer incentive programme terms.
  • Drafting and advising on social media influencer and brand ambassador agreements.
  • Leading the buy-side legal work on a US$1.5 million asset purchase.
  • Leading the sell-side privacy due diligence on a US$150 million transaction.
  • Advising a US healthtech business on UK and EU market entry, including regulatory positioning and data protection compliance.

Education

  • Solicitor of England and Wales (2015)
  • LLB, Newcastle University
  • LPC, College of Law
  • Fellow of the International Compliance Association

More about Neil

Year joined: 2026
  • My favourite place: The Mourne Mountains or North Coast of Northern Ireland if the weather is good!
  • My favourite book: Anything by Agatha Christie – I really like the Poirot novels – and the Hitchhiker’s Guide series.
  • Interests: I’ve played the saxophone since I was young and I also play guitar. I’ve played in various jazz bands over the years and I’ll often pick up a guitar when I’m taking 5 minutes away from a screen.

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Ignition Law welcomes Ashrelle Parker-Belgrave to its Commercial Team

Ignition Law is delighted to welcome Ashrelle Parker-Belgrave as a Commercial Associate in the firm’s Commercial Team. Bringing experience from both private practice and an innovative legal startup, Ashrelle advises founders, startups and SMEs on commercial contracts, technology agreements and data protection matters. She joins Ignition with a passion for helping growing businesses succeed and a keen interest in the opportunities that emerging technologies present for the legal sector.

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22nd October 2026